Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media

Gil-Fournier, Abelardo, Parikka, Jussi

Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media
  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-06-25
  • 售價: $1,710
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,625
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 328
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262547953
  • ISBN-13: 9780262547956

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商品描述

An investigation of aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental media theory perspective.

What if every vista, every island--indeed, every geographical feature on Earth--could be viewed as an art object? In Living Surfaces, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka explore how the surface of the Earth has, over the last two centuries, become known and perceived as an environment of images. Living Surfaces features a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces. Mapping these different scales of vegetal images, Gil-Fournier and Parikka help us understand core questions that pertain to the artistic and architectural reference points for the Anthropocene.

With 42 black-and-white and full-color illustrations, Living Surfaces is an engaging and unique take on environmental surfaces as they come to occupy a central place in our understanding of planetary change.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一項從實驗媒介理論的角度探討行星表面的美學與視覺化的研究。

如果每一個景觀、每一座島嶼——實際上，地球上的每一個地理特徵——都可以被視為一件藝術作品呢？在《活的表面》中，Abelardo Gil-Fournier 和 Jussi Parikka 探索了在過去兩個世紀中，地球的表面如何被認識和感知為一個影像的環境。《活的表面》展示了一系列案例研究，從十八世紀對植物物質、光合作用和植物生理的實驗與觀察，到二十一世紀的機器視覺和人工智慧技術在計算農業及其他景觀表面方面的應用。透過對這些不同尺度的植物影像進行映射，Gil-Fournier 和 Parikka 幫助我們理解與人類世相關的藝術和建築參考點的核心問題。

《活的表面》包含42幅黑白及全彩插圖，對環境表面進行了引人入勝且獨特的詮釋，這些表面在我們理解行星變化的過程中佔據了中心地位。

作者簡介

Abelardo Gil-Fournier is an artist and researcher. Initially trained in physics, he holds a PhD in Arts from the Winchester School of Art. His work has been shown and discussed in international venues and exhibitions.

Jussi Parikka is Professor of Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University and Visiting Professor at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague as well as the Winchester School of Art. He is the author of Insect Media, A Geology of Media, What is Media Archaeology?, and Operational Images and a coauthor of The Lab Book.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

阿貝拉多·吉爾-福爾尼爾（Abelardo Gil-Fournier）是一位藝術家和研究者。他最初接受物理學訓練，並擁有溫徹斯特藝術學院的藝術博士學位。他的作品曾在國際場館和展覽中展出並受到討論。

尤西·帕里卡（Jussi Parikka）是奧胡斯大學數位美學與文化的教授，同時也是布拉格表演藝術學院電影與電視學校的訪問教授，以及溫徹斯特藝術學院的訪問教授。他是《昆蟲媒介》（Insect Media）、《媒介地質學》（A Geology of Media）、《什麼是媒介考古學？》（What is Media Archaeology?）和《操作影像》（Operational Images）的作者，並且是《實驗室手冊》（The Lab Book）的共同作者。

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